Best Isekai Manhwa Where MCs Are Reborn Into Rich Families

Manhwa’s Isekai genre has not only captured readers’ imaginations but, it has also quickly and steadily cemented itself as one of the medium’s best genres with its wildly imaginative and exciting tales of reincarnation and otherworldly transportation. However, while the genre is highly regarded for the ability to breathe to life a story about quite literally anything, there is one sub-trope that automatically translates to a better life for the character: the one where protagonists find themselves reborn into affluent or noble families.

These manhwa present to fans and readers alike a good blend of luxury, and drama as the main characters navigate their second chance at life, often using their newfound status to rewrite their current lives. Therefore, this piece is no more than a recommendation of the best of these stories. Whether you’re a fan of lavish settings or clever protagonists, these manhwa are a must-read! As such, they are listed and examined below.

8 Solo Bug Player

Alternative Titles: Bug Player

• Creator(s): Cheongcho
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
• No. of Chapters: 127 (Ongoing)

Life has its perks when you are a gamer with 100% knowledge of a virtual-reality game that you have just reincarnated into, one of those being knowing all the systems within the game. This is the life of Taepung Shin, a gamer who gets reincarnated into his favorite MMO game, Paradiso.

Even better, he is reincarnated as the Lord of a Province as Lord Jared. With a miraculous opportunity to continue devotedly to Paradiso, Jared must control all of the game’s glitches and establish himself as the main character his new world desperately needs.

7 Happily Ever Afterwards

Alternative Titles: I Picked Up The Second Male Lead After The Ending

• Creator(s): Jeongseo, Hwang Dotol
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
• No. of Chapters: 89

For Peony, the protagonist of the Happily Ever Afterwards series, money would be the last of her worries if she managed to marry her favorite character in the novel, The Song of Asker. Fortunately, money does indeed become the last of Peony’s worries when she is miraculously reincarnated into her favorite novel as the princess of the Kingdom of Garten.

Now as a princess, Peony is determined to make her wish come true by marrying the story’s second male lead and her favorite character, former Prince Richt of the Fairspren Empire. However, there’s an issue with this: Richt has been banished to a barren land, according to the novel’s storyline. So, it remains to be seen how Peony deals with the obstacle between her and her desires.

6 Baby Tyrant

Alternative Titles: Born A Princess

• Creator(s): Lee Huin, Awon
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
• No. of Chapters: 86 (Ongoing)

In her initial life, a life of tragedy but with lots of money might not have been a bad idea for Yoon Gyeoul. However, having lived all of it with nothing but pain and tragedy alongside a good-for-nothing father, the prospect of starting another life of complete freedom was more than enough for the protagonist.

The Baby Tyrant series begins when Yoon Gyeoul is granted another life as Princess Mabel of the Ermaneau Empire after an initial life of suffering. With the resources and authority of the Empire to command, life could not be any better; That is, until the prophecy. Destined to save her new world from doom, Mabel finds herself once more in the eye of a brewing storm.

5 I Woke Up As The Villain

Alternative Titles: Trapped In The Web Novel As A Good-For-Nothing

• Creator(s): Arlg, So Yu-Hyun
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
• No. of Chapters: 175 (Ongoing)

I Woke Up As The Villain details a rather unexpected tale of a web novel reincarnation. The series’ central character, Yuseong, initially an ordinary office worker, sees his life flip upside down when he is mysteriously reincarnated into a web novel he was reading as a side character of the same name.

However, in this new life, he is now Yuseong Haesung of the Haesung Group Conglomerate, the hated and prone to tantrums member of the wealthy family who is doomed to be manipulated and killed. With the knowledge of this dark future, Yuseong is determined to change this outcome and find a way to become one of the Awakened people gifted with superpowers. By becoming one, Yuseong’s only chance of surviving is to become strong enough to defeat his enemies.

4 Reborn Rich

Alternative Titles: The Chaebeol’s Youngest Son

• Creator(s): JP, Sangyeong, Kim Byung-Kwan
• Genre: Drama
• No. of Chapters: 125 (Ongoing)

Reborn Rich features a thrilling time-travel story that explores the vast differences between the reversed fortunes of the story’s protagonist, Hyeonwoo. After 13 years of devoting himself to the wealthy family of Korea’s Soonyang Group, Hyeonwoo finds himself on the edge of a cliff facing death after being betrayed by his employers.

In what would have been his final sight, Hyeonwoo finds himself wishing for more time, and miraculously, instead of dying, he reawakens in the body of Dojun Jin, the youngest grandchild of the founder of the Soonyang Group at a time when he is still just a child. Granted a second chance, Hyeonwoo, now Dojun, begins his quest to exact revenge on his once employers, and now family relatives.

3 Descended From Divinity

Alternative Titles: The Heavenly Demon Can’t Live A Normal Life

• Creator(s): San Cheon, Zaino
• Genre: Action, Fantasy
• No. of Chapters: 132 (Ongoing)

After living his initial life as the tyrant divine demon overlord of the Murim, Junghyeok Baek questions his purpose after he is reincarnated into the body of the classless and alcohol-driven Roman Dimitri of the Dimitri noble house.

Reincarnated as another in another life, Junghyeok, now Roman Dimitri, is set to continue his life as a conqueror, quickly setting his sights upon the entire Salamander continent. However, with only his memories of martial arts in his previous life, as his only real advantage, it remains to be seen if Junghyeok can overturn Roman’s already beyond-tarnished reputation.

2 Who Made Me A Princess?

Alternative Titles: One Day I Became A Princess

• Creator(s): Plutos
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
• No. of Chapters: 125

Who Made Me A Princess expands on how a supposed harmless bedtime story becomes a reality through the eyes of the central character. The story revolves around a woman who always finds the story of the Emperor who kills his daughter—The Lovely Princess—terrifying.

However, that terror only multiplies when she is reincarnated into the story as the little princess Athanasia. Terrified, the woman, now Princess Athanasia, finds herself clawing at every idea of survival. But how exactly will she survive her fate when everything seems to be working against her?

1 Trash of The Count’s Family

Alternative Titles: Lout of the Count’s Family

• Creator(s): Elegant Yoo Ryeo Han
• Genre: Action, Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure
• No. of Chapters: 134 (Ongoing)

Trash of The Count’s Family details the central character, Kim Roksu’s life after he is reincarnated into the novel: The Birth of A Hero, after he falls asleep while reading it. With a life motto, which is not to get beat up by anyone, Kim Roksu’ finds his new life to be problematic as he has reincarnated as Cale Henituse of the noble house of Henituse, a minor villain in the original story and the first villain to be killed by Choi Han, the original story’s protagonist.

With his only knowledge of the story being only the beginning parts that he read as Kim Roksu, Cale knows it will not be long before his encounter with the hero, Choi Han. To avoid this dreadful fate, Cale sets out to do whatever he can to prevent his doomed future, including getting stronger. However, unknown to Cale, his actions and decisions will have unintended effects on the story.